EGYPT Miscellaneous

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Postage due stamps

1884 Inscription 'A percevoir postes egyptiennes'

10 pa red
20 pa red
1 Pi red
2 Pi red
5 Pi red

For the specialist: A star and crescent is impressed on the backside of the stamp (sort of watermark), they also exist with no watermark at all. The stamps have perforation 10 1/2. Remainders were cancelled to order and sold to dealers.

Dangerous forgeries exist (if anybody has information concerning these forgeries, pleas contact me!). They exists with and without the same impressed watermark as the original stamps. The perforation of these forgeries is 14.

Later, postal stamps were overprinted 'O.H.H.S' and arabic text to serve as official stamps (see under postage stamps for a listing).

Interpostal seals

The first interpostal seals of Egypt were issued in 1864 for Egyptian post offices at home and abroad by 'POSTA EUROPEA', a private company. Inscriptions on the seals are in Arabic, Turkish, Italian or French. I do not know what these seals were used for exactly. Literature: The Interpostals of Egypt 1864-1892 by E. A. Kehr.

Again a new salt tax design appeared in 1896 (2 values: 30 p black and no value black on green), these stamps have the year 1896 in the design. A similar stamp with '1897' appeared the next year (black on yellow).

Egypt also issued some cigarette tax stamps from 1892 onwards:

1892 Inscription 'DOUANES EYPTIENNES SERVICES DES TABACS', sphinx facing sideways, perforated or imperforate, the number of cigarettes is indicated on top of the stamp